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Silverman, Al was born on April 12, 1926 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry and Minnie (Damsky) Silverman.
( Here is an intimate pictorial history featuring rare an...)
Here is an intimate pictorial history featuring rare and many unpublished color photographs of the Yankees from the golden age of the celebrated baseball team. Yankee Colors tells the story of the legendary period from 1949 to 1964 when New York baseball was supreme and the New York Yankees were in the World Series almost every year. Now, this glorious period of Yankees history is captured through the intimate lens of famed sports photographer Marvin Newman. He was one of the only sports photographers of the time shooting in color and capturing the Yankee greats such as Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Casey Stengel, and Yogi Berra. Images of regular season games, pennant races, World Series competition, and Yankee Stadium are included. This book is a must for every Yankee and baseball fan, with behind-the-scenes moments and photos of the greatest baseball icons of the time.
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(As pictured. See photos. 1961, Sport Magazine No. 9, Stat...)
As pictured. See photos. 1961, Sport Magazine No. 9, Stated First Printing. Cover has light wear to edges & along folds at spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Moderately tanned, darker at edges. Sold by Friends of the Fullerton Library. 2015
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("Gale Sayers' book I Am Third, with Al Silverman, is a st...)
"Gale Sayers' book I Am Third, with Al Silverman, is a stirring, painfully honest account of his struggle to become the greatest running back in history and that agonizing moment between immortality and becoming a cripple." —The New York Times Book Review
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( The golden age of book publishing, Al Silverman informs...)
The golden age of book publishing, Al Silverman informs us with utter certainty, began in 1946 and lasted into the late 1970s and early 1980s. In his intimate history of those years, Silverman sets out to prove this sweeping conceit by relying on the eyes and ears and memories of the men and women who were there creating that history. Without inhibition, more than 120 of the most notable heads of houses, editors and publishers of this time shared many never-before told stories about how the most important books in postwar America came into being, and are still being read today. In The Time of Their Lives we learn how … -- Robert Gottlieb worked with Joseph Heller to make Catch-18, as it was then called, into the world renowned Catch-22… -- Corlies “Cork” Smith took a risk on a shy young man he had never heard of, Thomas Pynchon, after being absorbed by one of his earliest short stories … -- Leona Nevler edited under delicate working conditions with a most difficult author, to make Peyton Place a novel for all generations. It was Arthur Thornhill, Sr., in his years as president of Little, Brown’s grand publishing house who said about the occupation he loved, “I wanted to be part of something that was good,” his word for publishing in the golden age. In this fascinating and elegiac history, Al Silverman illuminates a period in publishing that was not only good, but formed a distinguishing landmark of culture in American life -- a golden time that certainly deserves a new life.
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(Hard cover First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. HARDC...)
Hard cover First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. HARDCOVER 1st printing of the 1st edition; fine in fine dust jacket. "A collection of seventeen articles explaining each position in pro football through the stories of the individual stars who excel or excelled at that position. "
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Silverman, Al was born on April 12, 1926 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry and Minnie (Damsky) Silverman.
Bachelor of Science, Boston University, 1949. Doctor of Letters, Boston University, 1986.
Association editor, Sport magazine, 1951-1952; sports editor, True magazine, 1952-1954; assistant editor, Argosy magazine, 1954-1955; free-lance magazine writer, contributor, Saturday Evening Post, Coronet, Pageant, This Week, American Weekly, American Heritage, Saturday Review, others, 1955-1960; editor-in-chief, Saga magazine, Impact magazine, Sport Library, Sport magazine, 1960-1972; executive vice president, editorial director, Book-of-the-Month Club, since 1972; president, chief operating officer, Book-of-the-Month Club, since 1981; chairman, chief executive office, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1985-1988; vice president, contributing editor, Viking Penguin, 1989-1992; senior vice president, public, editor in chief, Viking Penguin, since 1992; senior vice president, editor-at-large, Viking Penguin, New York City, 1994-1997; editorial advisor, Viking Penguin, New York City, since 1998.
("Gale Sayers' book I Am Third, with Al Silverman, is a st...)
( Here is an intimate pictorial history featuring rare an...)
( The golden age of book publishing, Al Silverman informs...)
(Hard cover First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. HARDC...)
(As pictured. See photos. 1961, Sport Magazine No. 9, Stat...)
Member Authors Guild, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Poets and Writers (board directors), The Merc.
Married Rosa Magaro, September 9, 1951. Children: Thomas, Brian, Matthew.